The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-04

lerics are higher ND by the winding
marble stairs of the sepulclTe, and that
Turner and Holman, Hunt and Rem
brandt, and Titan and Pau1 Veronese. if
they exercised saving faith in the Christ
whom they portrayed upon the canvas,
are painters vet, but their strength OF
faculty multiplied ten thousand fold. The
| reason TINT God took away their eye and
their hand and their brain was that Ee
! might give them something more timber,
more wieldy, more skiLlful, more nul-
fiplitant.
Donot therefore, be melancholy among
the tapestries and the brio brac and the
enbEoiderias and the water colors, and
the works of art which your departed
friends used to admire. Do not say:
Il am scIry they had to leave all these
things" Rather say: Il am glad they
have gone up to higher artistic oppor-
tunity and appreciation Our friends
who found so much JOY in the fine arts
on earth are now luXuIiating in LOWERS
and LuXembourgs celestial.
remark again, that all our departed
Christian friends who in this world We're
passi0nately fond of music are still re-
calling that taste in the world celestial.
The Bible says 50 Iauch about the music
OF heaven that it cannot all be tigurative.
The Bible over and over again speaks of
the songs Of heaven. If heaven had no
songs of its own vast number of those
of earth would have been taken up by the
earthly emigrants. Surely the Christian
at death does not lose his memory. Then
there must be millions Of souls in heaven
who know Coronation, " and Antioch"
and ''3Iount Pisgah, and .'Old Hun
dred = The leader Of the eternal orchestra
need only once tap his baton, and all
! heaven will be ready for the hallelujah.
Cannot the soul sing? How often we
/ compliment some exquisite singer by say
/ ing: There was SO much soul in her
music. In heaven it viii be all soul
until the body, after a while, comes up
in the resurrection, and then there will
| be an additional heaven. Cannot the soul
! heari If it can hear, then it can hear
music. Do not, therefore, let it be in
your household, when some member
| leaves for heaven, as it is in some house
| holds, that you close the piano and un-
string the harp for two years. because the
| fingers that used to play on them are
| still. You must remember that they
| have better instruments of music where
/ they are.
/ You ask me: ''Do they have real harps
and real trumpets and real organs?" l
| do not know. Some wiseacres say posi-
lively there are no such things in heaven.
90 not know; but should not be sur
prised if the God who made all the noun
tains, and all the hills, and all the forests.
and all the metals of the earth, and all
! gi,n
be surprised if he could, if he had a
mind to. make few harps and trumpets
and organs.
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the
music hall, and there he heard his own
oratorio Of The Creation" History
gays that as the orchestra came to that
famous passage, LET There be Light"
the whole audience rose and cheered, and
Haydn waved his hand toward heaven
and said: 1T comes from there" Over
whelmed with his own music, he was
carried out III his chair, and as he came
to the door he spread his hand toward
the orchestra as i'll benedictiCn. Haydn
was right when he waved bis hand toward
heaven and said: 1T comes from there. -
Music was born in heaven and it will
ever have its highest throne in heaven;
and want you to understand that our
departed friends who were lassionateIy
fond of music here, arg now at the head
quarters of harmony. / think that the
grand old church tunes that died when
your grandfathers died have gone with
them to heaven.
Again, I remark that those of our de-
nartn1 Christian friends who III this
world had very strong military spirit are
now in armies celestial and ont on blood
less battle. There are hundreds Of peo-
pie born soldiers. They can Dotbelp it.
They belong to regiments Il time Of
peace. They cannot hear q drum OF fife
without trying to keep step to the music
They are Christians, and when they fight
they fight on tho right side. Now when
these, our Christian friends who had
natural and powerful military spirit, en-
tered heaven, they entered the celestial
army.
The door of heaven hardly opens bat
gou hear a military demonstration,
David cried out: The chariots of God
are %. COO" Elisha saw the mountains
filed with celestial cavalry. st. John
said: 1.-THE armies which are in heaven
followed him on white horses" Now,
when those who had the military spirit
on earth sanctilied entered glory, l sup
pose they right away enlisted in some
heavenly campaign-they volunteered
right away. There must needs be in
heaven soldiers with a soldierly spirit.
There are Grand parade days when the
king reviews the troops, There must be
armed escort sent ouJ TO bring up from
earth to heaven those who were more
than conquerors. There must 30 cru
sades ever heing fitted out for some part
of Gods doniniOn-battles, blOodless,
groaness. painless. Angels OF evil to he
fought down and fought back. Other
yebelFous worlds to be conquered.
Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds
TO be saved. Worlds to be demolished.
Worlds to be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted
Beside that, in our own world there
nre BATTLES for the right and against the
wrong where we plust have The heavenly
military. That is what keeps us Chris
tian faformers so buOyant. SO few good
men against 50 many bad men, SO few
churches against sc many grog shops,
go few pure printing presses against 50
many polluted printing presses, and yet
]
, While We know that the armies Of evil, III
| the world are larger in numbers than the
army Of the truth, there are celestial
} cohorts in the air fighting on our side.
| have not so much faith in the army
on the ground as / have in the army IN
, the air. Q, God! open our eyes that we
. NAV see them. The military spirits that
went up frora earth to Join the military
5 spirits berora the tbroue-Joshua and
; Caleb and Gideon and David and Samson
and the hundreds of Christian warriors
, who on earth fought with fleshly arm,
and now having gone up On high are
Q coming down the hills Of heaven ready to
5 fight among the invisibles. Yonder they
, are-conling, coming. Did you not heal
S them as they swept by?
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